2022 in Australian literature
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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Literary fiction
- Robbie Arnott – Limberlost
- Jessica Au – Cold Enough for Snow
- Geraldine Brooks – Horse
- Jane Caro – The Mother[1]
- Steven Carroll – Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight
- Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)
- Robert Drewe – Nimblefoot[2]
- Gail Jones – Salonika Burning
- Yumna Kassab – The Lovers[3]
- Robert Lukins – Loveland[4]
- Fiona McFarlane – The Sun Walks Down[5]
- Fiona Kelly McGregor – Iris[6]
- Paddy O'Reilly – Other Houses[7]
- Edwina Preston – Bad Art Mother[8]
- Craig Sherborne – The Grass Hotel[9]
- Steve Toltz – Here Goes Nothing[10]
Short story collections
- Katerina Gibson – Women I Know
- Mirandi Riwoe – The Burnished Sun[11]
Crime and mystery
- Shelley Burr – Wake[12]
- Aoife Clifford – When We Fall[13]
- Chris Hammer – The Tilt[14]
- Jane Harper – Exiles
- Sally Hepworth – The Soulmate[15]
- Katherine Kovacic – Seven Sisters[16]
- Tracey Lien – All That's Left Unsaid[17]
- Dervla McTiernan – The Murder Rule[18]
- Michael Robotham – Lying Beside You[19]
- Emma Viskic – Those Who Perish[20]
- Sean Wilson – Gemini Falls
- Greg Woodland – The Carnival is Over[21]
Science fiction and fantasy
- Eugen Bacon – Mage of Fools[22]
- Grace Chan – Every Version of You[23]
- Greg Egan
- Sean McMullen – Generation Nemesis[24]
- Jane Rawson – A History of Dreams[25]
- Angela Slatter – The Path of Thorns[26]
Children's and young adult fiction
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke – 11 Words for Love[27]
- Lian Tanner – Rita’s Revenge[28]
- Gabrielle Wang – Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon[29]
Poetry
- Adam Aitken – Revenants[30]
- Boey Kim Cheng – The Singer and Other Poems[31]
- Marion May Campbell – Languish[32]
- Brook Emery – Sea Scale: New & Selected Poems.
- Lionel Fogarty – Harvest Lingo[33]
- Lisa Gorton – Mirabilia[34]
- Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar[35]
- John Kinsella – The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)[36]
- Les Murray – Continuous Creation[37]
- Rae White – Exactly As I Am[38]
Non-Fiction
- Alison Bashford – An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family[39]
- Debra Dank – We Come With This Place[40]
- Jo Dyer – Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics[41]
- Madonna King – L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood[42]
- Louisa Lim – Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong[43]
- Julianne Schultz – The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation[44]
Memoir
- Hannah Gadsby – Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation[45]
- Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On[46]
- Chloe Hooper – Bedtime Story[47]
- Anita Jacoby – Secrets Beyond the Screen[48]
- Wendy McCarthy – Don't Be Too Polite, Girls[49]
- Brenda Niall – My Accidental Career[50]
- Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here[51]
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Mona Brand Award[52] | Andrea James |
| Patrick White Award[53] | Antigone Kefala |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[54] | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Giramondo Publishing |
| Colin Roderick Award[55] | Emily Bitto | Wild Abandon | Allen & Unwin |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56] | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[57] | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press |
| Stella Prize[58] | Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60] | Veronica Gorrie | Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience | Scribe |
Fiction
Children and Young Adult
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARA Historical Novel Prize[63] | Children and Young Adult | Katrina Nannestad | Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief | HarperCollins |
| Children's Book of the Year Award[71] | Older Readers | Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | Allen & Unwin |
| Younger Readers | Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | Puffin | |
| Picture Book | Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft | Iceberg | Allen & Unwin | |
| Early Childhood | Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville | Jetty Jumping | Hardie Grant | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press | |
| Lifetime Achievement | Margaret Wild[72] | |||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56] | Children's | Katrina Nannestad | Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief | ABC Books |
| Young Adult | Danielle Binks | The Monster of Her Age | Lothian | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Children's | Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | UQP |
| Young People's | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Children's | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Magabala Books |
| Young Adult | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60] | Young Adult Fiction | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan |
Crime and Mystery
International
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Award[73] | Paperback Original | Dervla McTiernan | The Good Turn | HarperCollins |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[74] | Novel | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
| Young adult novel | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text Publishing | |
| Children's novel | Nicki Greenberg | The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel | Affirm Press | |
| Non-fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc | |
| Debut novel | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
| Readers' choice | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
| Ned Kelly Award[75] | Novel | Candice Fox | The Chase | Bantam Books |
| First novel | Josh Kemp | Banjawarn | UWA Publishing | |
| True crime | Debi Marshall | Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders | Vintage Books | |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Jodie Albiston | Fifteeners | Puncher & Wattmann |
| Anne Elder Award[76] | Audrey Molloy | The Important Things | Gallery Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[77] | Jelena Dinic | In the Room with the She Wolf | Wakefield Press |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[67] | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Giramondo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | Vagabond Press |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[78] | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Hunter |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60] | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | University of Queensland Press |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Script | Shaun Grant | NITRAM | |
| Play | Kirsty Marillier | Orange Thrower | Currency Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60] | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk | ||
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[79] | Award | Aran Thangaratnam | love MAD GLITCH | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Fellowship | Joanna Murray-Smith |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Non-Fiction | Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Fourth Estate |
| The Age Book of the Year[62] | Non-Fiction | Bennadette Brennan | Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56] | Non-Fiction | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate |
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Amber Creswell Bell | Still Life | Thames and Hudson | |
| National Biography Award[80][81] | Biography | Bernadette Brennan | Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Non-Fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[82] | Australian History | Alexis Bergantz | French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions | NewSouth Publishing |
| Community and Regional History | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. | |
| General History | Mina Roces | The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change | Cornell University Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Non-Fiction | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Ultimo Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[59][60] | Non-Fiction | Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | Pan |